Ill happily take it if your in the SW??
You may have to join a queue! 
I would need to know more about your gardening skills.
Many years ago, I used to give plants to friends and they’d come back some time later and say “Could I have another one, the last one died”. NOOO!
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Yes we’d join a queue!
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Munstead Wood is a beautiful rose. It could replace any rose if you had to Leave one behind in France
If you are in Normandie visit the Jardins du Pays d’auge. Wonderful place and an inspiration for any gardener or would be. There was a creperie in the grounds but not sure if it reopened or not, perhaps someone knows?
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We moved back to England in February. Certainly no plants and the removal company wouldn’t take food or drink. I don’t know if you have started on the Transfer of Residence inventory, but that took ages.
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Unfortunately we don’t live in Normandy but I’ve checked out the Jardins du Pays d’auge website and it looks a beautiful place indeed.
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We are still some way away from selling - the house needs a lot of tarting up. We’re also spoiling ourselves. The new house is tiny and modern. Our current house is huge and 350 years old. I’m furnishing the new house from scratch. Except for paintings and one or two ornaments, we are leaving everything. The new owners can have the stuff, or sell it. Up to them. We will lock the door and walk away.
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Perhaps if you are travelling through Normandie you might be able to pay a visit to these gardens?
They have large Munstead Wood roses in one of the gardens there, such a beautiful fragrance. It takes quite a while to see it all. We have been a few times and always find something new to see. The cafe was indoors and outside in a lovely courtyard too. I hope they have reopened the creperie now
Also a wedding venue!
Not necessary for us - our wedding was in Gretna Green!
And unfortunately Normandy is a bit too far away for us to visit but as the saying goes - never say never.
Rachel 
Our daughter bought us a beautiful Gertrude Jekyll rose as a moving in present. Her garden at Le Bois des Moutiers (around a Lutyens house), at Varangeville sur mer, near Dieppe is wonderful.
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Interesting. Are you referring to the time it took for you to collate the inventory or the time it took to get approval once submitted.
If the latter then from submission to approval took just 3 days for us (October 2025).
You can also add to it after submission if you have forgotten
Something.
The approval of the TOR took 24 hours, which was the fastest ever according to the removal company. It was the complexity of dealing with 20 years of stuff. Paintings, ornaments, hundreds of books, DVDs, CDs, IT equipment, kitchen equipment, clothes, furniture and a husband who doesn’t like getting rid of things. We also had to put values on everything to reach a total for the removal company which took ages.
Plus managing complex medical needs and disabilities.
Three months later I think I am starting to recover.
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That’s why we are walking away from it all! 
Without your clothes? 
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Lovely idea, which I yearned for at times during our upheaval. But realistic? Whilst you might find a buyer who will take a beautifully presented house with furniture, kitchenware and some decorative items they will want empty cupboards, space for their own precious bits of furniture, and no tut. A fork and spade in barn, but not tottering heaps of old pots, things that might come in useful and the like.
And it was getting to that point that was hard!
I’m already clearing and taking stuff every week to the decheterie and the recyclerie. Our view is that either the new owners take what we leave or we get in a house clearing company.
If it is bought to be a gite business / second home they may be grateful for the furniture etc.
We left a beautiful garden/park we created from open fields.
We did inherit 6 enormous walnut trees which gave us a start. The walnut trees gave us wonderful harvests, some we sold and others were turned into oil at a local mill.
The garden was our pride and joy and gave us endless hours of pleasure, and latterly what became hard work. Buying all the plants was a great pleasure too.
It would have been nice to take cuttings and bring them back to the UK but that would have robbed us of the pleasure we have had in the last 4 months of buying and planting our new garden.
Let your rose thrive in France @SuePJ and start afresh with your delightful mini space and plant it using the knowledge gained from your time in France.
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Thank you. You are right.
When we moved to France the exchange rate was 1.45 so I had a whale of a time spending a fortune in our local wonderful garden centre. The house had been a second home, so the garden was empty except for roses round the pool and three apple trees. So over the last 19 years I’ve had great fun planting dozens and dozens of trees, ninety small whips which are now a great long wild hedge, dozens of bushes and roses and perennials.
I’m now looking at something a bit different. Basically a large border that one can walk through - no lawn. We have bifold doors and when we open the doors right back it brings the garden into the house.
I’ve been playing with a simple garden planner and am looking for something like this:
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That’s a lovely blank canvas to start with and create a garden that suits you and is manageable
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